WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.240 This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,827 for Tuesday 4 April 2023. 00:14.240 --> 00:21.720 Today's show is entitled, Reply to HP are 3,798. 00:21.720 --> 00:26.960 It is hosted by Brian in Ohio and is about 8 minutes long. 00:26.960 --> 00:29.560 It carries a clean flag. 00:29.560 --> 00:32.160 The summary is added, Slack or information. 00:40.560 --> 00:43.040 Hey, hello, Packer Public Radio Brian in Ohio. 00:43.040 --> 00:44.800 Another show, amazing. 00:44.800 --> 00:48.160 I think I'm going to hit a high quota this year, which is good. 00:48.160 --> 00:53.560 There's always need for shows at HPR and I'll do the requisite. 00:53.560 --> 00:55.600 If you haven't done a show, do one. 00:55.600 --> 00:56.600 Keep this project going. 00:56.600 --> 00:59.040 It's a great service. 00:59.040 --> 01:02.880 Thanks to Ron for joining the janitor team. 01:02.880 --> 01:05.240 Today's show, it's not going to be about the Z80. 01:05.240 --> 01:10.880 It's just a quick reply to HPR 3798 done by Mechatroniac. 01:10.880 --> 01:12.480 I like his stuff. 01:12.480 --> 01:16.480 If you don't like his emails, I think you just delete him and that would be great, but 01:16.480 --> 01:21.560 he's got good shows in earnest and stuff, but in 3798 he talked a little bit about Slack 01:21.560 --> 01:27.920 where and I just want to maybe add little information for anybody who's thinking about 01:27.920 --> 01:33.720 using Slack where I've been a long time Slack where I use it on all of my machines. 01:33.720 --> 01:35.760 I use it on my Raspberry Pi's. 01:35.760 --> 01:37.960 I don't really stray. 01:37.960 --> 01:45.720 The only thing that I don't use Slack where on is the pine phone that I'm playing with 01:45.720 --> 01:55.160 only because Slack was really for desktops and bigger, not designed for mobile operation. 01:55.160 --> 01:57.400 Yeah, who knows what could happen in the future. 01:57.400 --> 02:06.680 So anyway, a couple of things I've ever said in Mechatroniac's show were first off was about 02:06.680 --> 02:12.760 the different sizes of distributions that he found for his Slack where I used any city 02:12.760 --> 02:14.760 picked the biggest one. 02:14.760 --> 02:22.240 As far as I know, the best place to get Slack where is to go to Slackwhere.com and then 02:22.240 --> 02:27.600 you'll be greeted with a very simple website and over there, I don't say get Slack. 02:27.600 --> 02:34.240 Click on that, it'll go to mirrors, you go to mirror and then from there, there's some 02:34.240 --> 02:42.680 list of stuff on the side and it'll say pick your, what does it say? 02:42.680 --> 02:47.800 Something about P, oh, it says a DVD install and go ahead click on that and then you'll 02:47.800 --> 02:51.160 see, you usually see a tree, these are all mirrors so that you're going to get the one that's 02:51.160 --> 02:52.160 closest to you. 02:52.160 --> 02:55.840 You'll see a tree of all the available Slack where they go all the way back to Slack 02:55.840 --> 02:58.160 where I ate, I think, or maybe 11. 02:58.160 --> 03:02.280 But anyway, if you're going to want to grab the newest one, if you've never done Slack 03:02.280 --> 03:06.880 or a report that's the best one to use, Slack where 15, you click on that and then you're 03:06.880 --> 03:10.040 going to be presented with some options. 03:10.040 --> 03:17.840 You can get Slack where 15, all by itself, DVD install image or ISO image or something 03:17.840 --> 03:28.000 like that. That is a 32-bit Linux, the latest Slack we're 15 and 32-bit. 03:28.000 --> 03:33.040 Yeah, Slack we're still, ships a 32-bit version, so if you've got older hardware out there 03:33.040 --> 03:37.560 and you need 32-bit support, it's the place to go. 03:37.560 --> 03:45.400 I personally use the 64-bit version, I'm running Slack where on an IBM ThinkPad T480 with 03:45.400 --> 03:56.000 the Core i7-8th Gen processor, it's very nice machine, so there's Slack where 64 ISO and 03:56.000 --> 04:02.320 you're going to click on that and then you're going to want to download the DVD install 04:02.320 --> 04:03.840 image, DVD ISO. 04:03.840 --> 04:13.920 Now, you don't need a DVD drive to install Slack where those images are hybrid images. 04:13.920 --> 04:22.160 You can use the DVD command once you've downloaded it, to a USB stick and it'll boot 04:22.160 --> 04:28.600 right up and you'll have the installer and all the files that you need to install Slack 04:28.600 --> 04:29.600 where. 04:29.600 --> 04:34.760 That's Slack where has when you download it you get an installer and you get the full tree 04:34.760 --> 04:43.160 as of the time that Slack where 15 was released and that's all you will need to install 04:43.160 --> 04:46.360 Slack where. 04:46.360 --> 04:53.160 So on my T480, I use EFI to boot into this machine. 04:53.160 --> 04:58.760 In fact, this is a dual boot machine, I've got the Windows partition that it came with, 04:58.760 --> 05:03.520 I shrunk it down, use a G-parted and then I put a new partition and I put Slack where 05:03.520 --> 05:04.520 there. 05:04.520 --> 05:11.200 This machine dual boots into Windows 10, I think, I don't really ever use it, but I'd have 05:11.200 --> 05:15.920 it just in case because there's always, there could be a need sometime where there's some 05:15.920 --> 05:19.920 piece of software that you might want to use, it's a Windows only thing. 05:19.920 --> 05:24.480 Currently, I want to use one program that's Windows only and that's a soaring computer 05:24.480 --> 05:26.640 condor soaring. 05:26.640 --> 05:36.120 Anyway, so I, but it's an EFI boot and you follow the install instructions and you'll 05:36.120 --> 05:44.560 get to the boot section and so Slack where on an EFI machine does not use Li-Lo to boot, 05:44.560 --> 05:46.400 it uses E-Li-Lo. 05:46.400 --> 05:51.840 So E-Li-Lo is the next version of Li-Lo or move on from there. 05:51.840 --> 05:52.840 It's available. 05:52.840 --> 06:03.280 I've got the links in the show notes, it's a sourceboard site and it's a booting with 06:03.280 --> 06:14.800 the call it a boot manager that is for EFI drives and it's a lot like Li-Lo was and 06:14.800 --> 06:24.760 that it's got a plain text boot configuration file that can be found in the boot section, 06:24.760 --> 06:32.720 boot EFI, EFI, Slackware and there's your config file, E-Li-Lo.config and I'll actually 06:32.720 --> 06:44.400 post it my small E-Li-Lo conflict, that's a dual boot to Windows, yeah because the default 06:44.400 --> 06:47.360 is Windows, it's a double, and that's the W. 06:47.360 --> 06:57.280 Anyway, so it's a simple text based boot configuration file and this machine has no 06:57.280 --> 07:05.680 problems that boots into using EFI boots into either systems, it's I've got a couple 07:05.680 --> 07:14.560 different kernel options and it's really easy to update kernels, you just when you do 07:14.560 --> 07:21.120 an update that has a kernel update, you just copy it into the boot section and that's 07:21.120 --> 07:28.320 all you have to do, you don't have to lie low, you just have to run Li-Lo again, Li-Lo after 07:28.320 --> 07:31.360 you did a kernel thing and it would grab the new partition, you don't have to do that with 07:31.360 --> 07:35.440 E-Li-Lo, you just copy it over in the next time you boot a little boot into the new hard 07:35.440 --> 07:41.280 drive, and to the new kernel as long as it's labeled correctly, anyway, what else can I say 07:41.280 --> 07:50.720 about this, so and no, it's not Li-Lo, it's E-Li-Lo, it's for EFI systems, now that 07:50.720 --> 07:58.400 being said, I have a Dell machine that my wife uses at home which runs Slackware and on that 07:58.400 --> 08:06.160 system, I did actually go into what they call legacy boot, it's an option and then I just use 08:06.160 --> 08:11.200 standard Li-Lo in that because it's not an EFI boot partition at that point and that's not 08:11.200 --> 08:17.280 a dual-boot machine, it's only it's Slackware only because my wife uses Slackware also, she's 08:17.280 --> 08:23.280 awesome, anyway, so that was I think the couple things that I wanted to get out there, 08:24.960 --> 08:34.880 Slackware.com, it's the place to go to get Slackware and E-Li-Lo, not Li-Lo and it's better than 08:34.880 --> 08:43.200 Li-Lo if you have an EFI machine and anyway, thanks for listening, Micronia, keep the shows coming 08:43.200 --> 08:47.360 especially one of those drama shows, that'd be really great and another one of those end of the world 08:47.360 --> 08:54.640 apocalyptic things, that was very, very rewarding. 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